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Foofah: Transforming Data By Example

Summary: Data wrangling is automated by example. Foofah synthesizes transformation programs from a small input-output example by efficiently searching the space of operations, outperforming Wrangler with about 60% less user effort. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hd996d48063b932bc
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00011946262
Overall Rank
1,111 | 92.56%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3064034

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jin_sigmod17,
        title = {{Foofah: Transforming Data By Example}},
        author = {Jin, Zhongjun and Anderson, Michael R. and Cafarella, Michael and Jagadish, H. V.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3064034},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3064034},
        year = {2017}
}

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3,897 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.9202872e-05
4,005 Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search 2021 VLDB 6.8448428e-05
4,444 Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns 2020 VLDB 6.5812416e-05
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7,713 Trinity: An Extensible Synthesis Framework for Data Science 2019 VLDB 5.4557388e-05
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7,946 TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations 2025 VLDB 5.404949e-05
8,047 Foofah: A Programming-By-Example System for Synthesizing Data Transformation Programs 2017 SIGMOD 5.3846335e-05
8,175 PIDS: Attribute Decomposition for Improved Compression and Query Performance in Columnar Storage 2020 VLDB 5.3689261e-05
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10,273 Scalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias 2021 SIGMOD 5.0356939e-05
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10,603 Guardrail: Automated Integrity Constraint Synthesis From Noisy Data 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,939 DeepPrep: An LLM-Powered Agentic System for Autonomous Data Preparation 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,334 Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,855 DataRinse: Semantic Transforms for Data preparation based on Code Mining 2023 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,900 SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation 2022 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,307 Constraint-based Explanation and Repair of Filter-based Transformations 2018 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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95 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00034319763
178 Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases 2015 VLDB 0.00026568976
516 Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System 2013 CIDR 0.00016963937
1,094 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.00012039085
2,263 Characterizing Schema Mappings via Data Examples 2010 PODS 8.7343452e-05
3,594 Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples 2012 VLDB 7.1638481e-05
7,781 Senbazuru: A Prototype Spreadsheet Database Management System 2013 VLDB 5.4375694e-05
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